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Abstract
This paper addresses the changing governance of the social through the conjunction of international, national and local strategies where attempts to regulate migration and promote community safety meet. Migration has been increasingly subjected to processes of ‘securitization’ and ‘criminalization’ that encounter and align with new pressures in ‘domestic’ crime and safety policies. The paper offers a critical evaluation of the sociological grand narratives that frame these events, arguing instead for a more nuanced analysis of the instabilities and volatilities of governance strategies and practices – and the normative issues that they bring into view.
Notes
1. This article is based on a key-note address delivered at the Crime Prevention Symposium, hosted by the Ministry of Justice, Victoria, Australia in October 2003.
2. See, for example, The Guardian's Madeleine Bunting and Adam Curtis’ televisual documentary series, The Power of Nightmares broadcast on BBC2 in 2004 whose work suggests, following Bauman, that peddling fear is a lucrative and vote-catching political business, particularly in our fluid and increasingly uncertain world.